Sentences with phrase «school comedy of»

From the high school comedy of Dazed and Confused to the Parisian romance of Before Sunset and the animated science fiction of A Scanner Darkly, Linklater has scuttled from genre to genre with ease.

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She trades in observation comedy, sometimes about situations she's far removed from («Types of Kids at School,» for example).

It's a movie I wish I had when I was in high school instead of the then - standard «American Pie» or «Superbad» or every other male - centric teen sex comedy.

This year, McGill's Richer was appointed to the Order of Canada after running the revered École nationale de l'humour (National Comedy School) for nearly three decades.

Business Insider recently spoke to Matt Novack, one of the composers of the series alongside lead composer Craig Wedren (School of Rock, Anchorman, GLOW), about the challenges of composing comedy, and parodying the music of a nostalgic decade.

In this case, the season premiere of the beloved - yet - struggling comedy will put the Greendale Seven into a Hunger Games - type battle royale for missing school records.

, a hard - R comedy about a group of high - school girls (Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon) who make a pact to lose their virginity on prom night, and their parents» (Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz) ensuing plan to stop them.

Friday saw the release of Blockers, a hard - R comedy about a group of high - school girls (Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon) who make a pact to lose their virginity on prom night, and their parents» (Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz) ensuing plan to stop them.

Steines studied comedy at The Groundlings, the renowned school of improv, and earned a degree from JoAnne Baron / DW Brown Acting Studio's Meisner Technique training.

Cynthia has taught at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program in the mountains of southern California, with the Chicago Children's Theater's Red Kite Program for children with autism and currently teaches improv and sketch comedy for The Second City Teen and Youth Program and at The Stage School in Park Ridge.

Outside of school, catch me in the research lab, cooking vegan pad thai, getting weird in improv comedy performances, and giving sick Kesem face tats.

Now, Willis is a graduate of the Second City improv school in Hollywood and has helped write, produce, and star in a sketch comedy for kids about climate change called «The Lollygaggers.»

And then I came back and I thought I was going to go into comedy writing with a friend of mine, but he became very self - conscious and so I went to grad school.

After more than two years of performing comedy in Los Angeles, she found her calling in the kitchen and, after enrolling in the International Culinary School at the Art Institute, started her own catering company.Her healthy and flavor - packed cooking style has made her a fan favorite among thousands of home cooks and food lovers looking for healthy options that don't sacrifice taste.In her newest video course, The Complete Guide To Gluten - Free Eating, she shows you how to whip up amazing gluten - free dishes.

After more than two years of performing comedy in Los Angeles, she found her calling in the kitchen and, after enrolling in the International Culinary School at the Art Institute, started her own catering company.

My favorites would have to be Band of outsiders for holding it at a comedy club I think that's a fun idea and would make a cool thing to watch.I also liked Pronounce I would so wear those clothes but in black of course, but my first fav would have to be KTZ as a punk in my youth yes I had a mowak I really liked the old school vibes in this collection.

A high - energy romantic comedy that follows three My fourth graders are spending some time these last few weeks of school building their to - read lists.

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Well i'm Dustin and i adore people who share the love for anime i can be shy at sometimes but would love to meet someone with the same interests as me i stop reading manga because of school but i do enjoy me some harem / action / comedy / ecchi / magi c / romance / adventure / fantasy / et c...

In this campus comedy, the war between the sexes turns into a veritable holocaust when a bunch of guys try to get all the females out of their school.

The»80s - set British comedy Starter for 10 follows university student Brian (The Last King of Scotland «s James McAvoy) as he tries to sort out his love life and score a spot on the school quiz team.

Taunted by their classmates since grade school and never quite able to escape the culturally suffocating confines of their homogenized Midwestern hometown, a pair of small - town misfits make a break for the big city in this comedy from director Lorene Machado.

Mike White, who scripted biting, edgy satire of this sort («The Good Girl,»» Chuck and Buck») before making his fortune with «School of Rock,» serves up an unsettling and generally deft comedy of manners with this clash, a film that greatly benefits from subtle, stinging performances by Salma Hayek and as her opposite number, John Lithgow.

Described by one prominent critic as Revenge of the Nerds with an increased fart quotient and added projectile vomiting, this dumb - dumb frat comedy cast Heder, Spade and Schneider as a trio of losers who form a baseball team to thwart a bunch of elementary - school bullies; Heder played a booger - eating dork with an unhealthy degree of maternal attachment.

Old School, which follows three grown men (Luke Wilson's Mitch, Will Ferrell's Frank, and Vince Vaughn's Beanie) as they turn their house into a fraternity, marks director Todd Phillips» first fictional endeavor since Road Trip, and it's immediately clear that the movie, like that 2000 Tom Green comedy, manages to entertain in spite of a distinct lack of overt laughs.

Nothing about it is really that funny and most of it is just carried over comedy from different teenager / high school comedies.

But this is a comedy — or it's meant to be — and as much as I would have loved for the sense of the sinister inherent in this concept to turn into something deeply, blackly funny (I'm thinking of Very Bad Things as a possible precedent for this, but The Hangover is never so audacious), Lucas and Moore and director Todd Phillips (School for Scoundrels, Starsky & Hutch) go for the easy, cheap laughs, things that will shock a juvenile mindset — a mother breastfeeding?

The last of the series, this British comedy finds the girls of St. Trinian's boarding school fighting off a group of criminals who are determined to reclaim the $ 7 million they hid at the school years earlier.

When a geeky high - school valedictorian throws caution to the wind by expressing his love for a popular cheerleader during his graduation speech, life finally starts to get interesting in this coming - of - age comedy adapted from the book by journalist / author / screenwriter Larry Doyle.

Welcome to the Dollhouse is a stark suburban comedy about 11 - year - old Dawn Wiener (Matarazzo), a middle child in middle school in the middle of New Jersey.

Though McAdams» early screen roles found her specializing in the bitchy teen princess to maximum effect, closer inspection reveals a skilled dramatic actress who no doubt has the talent to move beyond the high - school trappings of such comedies as The Hot Chick and Mean Girls.Born to a truck driver and a nurse in London, Ontario, Canada, McAdams warmed to the spotlight early on by taking up competitive skating at just four years old.

The multihyphenate (who reportedly began authoring poetry and songs at the age of 14) moved with her mother to Southern California immediately after high school graduation to accommodate her dreams of becoming a Hollywood star and promptly landed both representation and a key role as a pop diva in the Hugh Grant / Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Music and Lyrics.

Synopsis: Jared Paul and Andrew Mogel's comedy - drama The D Train stars Jack Black as Dan, a man in charge of organizing his high - school reunion.

During an overnight grad night party, a group of high school graduates seek to complete their unfulfilled dreams before high school is over forever in this AwesomenessTV comedy series created by Jason Ubaldi.

ontinuing the «Old School» tradition of adult comedies with immature humor, «The Hangover» succeeds with a promising premise and several inspired performances from its leads.

Garofalo's prolific output continued in 1997; in addition to starring roles in two comedies, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion and The Matchmaker, she was featured prominently in James Mangold's Cop Land and Paul Schrader's Touch, she hosted the MTV series Indie Outing, and she remained a fixture of the emerging alternative comedy circuit.

Todd Phillips (Road Trip, Old School) directed this low - brow but sporadically inspired movie, and it has already earned a reputation as the boundary - pushing comedy movie of the summer, thanks to word of mouth and clever preview trailers.

«Save The World Telethon» is a parody of old school telethons as an excuse to bring a great night of comedy variety entertainment with the good natured and multitalented Alan Thicke hosting.

In this black comedy, a philosophical hit man (Cusack) reluctantly accepts an assignment in Detroit which coincides with his 10 - year high school reunion in the upscale suburb of Grosse Point,...

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

From the age of five on, Lewis occasionally performed in his parents» act, and later quit high school in order to travel with his own comedy routine, which consisted primarily of mocking famous entertainers while their records were played off - stage.

Even today, comedy buffs can cite from memory the particulars of «The Danny Thomas / Sid Melton School of Coffee - Spitting.»

This comedy follows the exploits of Tony Petersen (Jack Thompson), a mature married man with two children who decides to go back to school for an undergraduate degree.

For the most part «Old School» opts out of the gross - out style of comedy used in the likes of «American Pie» and «Road Trip», but maintains a certain low - brow appeal that for some inexplicable reason still works fairly well.

Since that's what happened in Very Bad Things, it's an easy bet that director Todd Phillips (Old School, Road Trip) will probably offer a different course of shock - comedy treatment.

«Old School» director Todd Phillips has met and surpassed the hysterics of his former film with this take - it - to - the - limit comedy.

For once a comedy in the Animal House school that knows what it's was about: the vulgarity of the gags matches the vulgarity of the subject, and this 1980 film becomes a fierce, cathartically funny celebration of the low, the cheap, the venal — in short, America.

This comedy presents the story of a white college student who desperately wants to enroll in the Harvard Law School, but since his wealthy father refuses to help him pay the $ 54,000 he needs, so he begins taking tanning pills to darken his skin so he will be eligible to win the Bouchard Fellowship which is only awarded to African - American students.

Selling this «From the Director of Old School» didn't do much for me, because I've preferred almost every subsequent «Frat Pack» comedy to the one that kind of cemented that clique.

Shedding the broader PG - 13 comedy of his past two films (Starsky & Hutch and School for Scoundrels) director Todd Phillips returns to the kind of raunchy guys - get - together humor that he does best.